From staff reports
Darren E. Mullins, M.D., a board-certified, fellowship-trained medical oncologist, has joined Beaufort Memorial Oncology Specialists, part of the hospital’s nationally recognized Keyserling Cancer Center in Beaufort.
Dr. Mullins brings extensive knowledge of the full range of established and emerging therapies—among them chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, biological therapy, immunotherapy and targeted therapy—to the treatment of a wide variety of cancers, including those of the breast, prostate, head and neck, GI system and blood.
The Tennessee native had spent the whole of his career at medical oncology practices in the South before deciding to, as he put it, “do something different.” In 2017 he accepted an offer to establish a new practice and service line at Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, Alaska, returning to home base after six rewarding, productive years to join Beaufort Memorial. No stranger to the Palmetto State, Mullins founded Waccamaw Oncology in Georgetown/Murrells Inlet and practiced there from 2002 through 2013.
He holds a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham and a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry, cum laude, from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis and a fellowship in medical oncology at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center in Charlottesville.“Dr. Mullins brings unmistakable expertise and compassion to the practice of medical oncology, a specialty that requires both,” said Russell Baxley, president and chief executive officer at Beaufort Memorial. “Area patients will greatly benefit from his care.”
